Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Wrestling With Nietzsche - Aron van Os & G.P. Xavier - Lucas Vos Podcast #62

Today I'm joined by G.P. Xavier and Aron van Os to discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". G.P. has his own channel on which he produces dense content about different philosophers, ideas, and he hosts conversations as well. Aron is a philosophy teacher at the University of Amsterdam, and he did his masters thesis on Nietzsche. This conversation gave a me lots of food for thought and it will be continued!

Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction
(4:20) What drove G.P. to the book?
(6:34) Why did Nietzsche formulate a positive vision?
(11:20) Dionysian vs. Christian worldview
(25:14) Does Christianity deny or affirm the world?
(28:09) Pageauvian view of Christianity: revealing reality as it is?
(32:52) Will to power
(38:51) Übermensch/Superman
(50:20) Can Nietzsche's worldview scale?
(1:00:08) Good and evil
(1:07:48) Lucas' experience with the book
(1:11:45) Nietzsche provides the strongest alternative to a Christian worldview & Outro

 

Aron and G.P. on the book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvoCOQQKHE&t=156s 

G.P.'s 4 hour video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWsSoXkOoPc 

 

G.P.:

https://x.com/gpxavier1

https://gpxavier.writeas.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@gpxavier 

Aron:

https://x.com/Aroown

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfvz3jPfvBYk94HHNECf5w 

Myself:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucasVous 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucasvoz/ 
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